No love for Star Wars Rebellion?!
They make a lot of junk but they did make a couple of really good games.
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Board Gaming Era |OT| (Mostly) Unplugged Gaming
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No love for Star Wars Rebellion?!
They make a lot of junk but they did make a couple of really good games.
Maybe it' something I'll pick up. I am definitely interested, just not now. I would like to buy some starter painting tools and some whatever minis I don't mind practicing on but nothing serious. I appreciate the long reply.
I didn't really plan on just jumping straight into Imperial Assault but possibly 7[SUP]th[/SUP] Continent eventually and painting those minis for the worms, trees and such.
Space Hulk: Death Angel and its expansions are a treasure in my collection. I regret not getting Blood Bowl Team Manager.
They even fumbled the reprint with Heroes of Terrinoth. The company just isn't what it used to be.
The worse part is that I don't ever see either of these getting a reprint. They existed in a certain time under a very specific set of circumstances and only a relative few will ever even know they exist, let alone play them. They will be lost to time and that is super unfortunate.
Looks like the next campaign box for Marvel Champions leaked
I'll buy it!
I sold my complete BBTM set for cheap when I moved. It never got to the table so it was gathering some dust.
Still regret it a bit though.
Sheeeeit. I gotta' make up my mind about Oathsworn before the month is up. I'm just not sure I'm 100% there with some of its design choices. The idea of doing a whole hour of narrative to get into the gameplay stuff seems like a tough sell to my media blasted, short attention span tablemates. Anyone else eyeing this one? It definitely looks super epic.
I've refunded it actually. I decided to start taking stock of all my board games and genres.
Gloomhaven, Star Wars: Imperial Assault, and Too Many Bones are my current RPGs and dungeon crawlers. I have Midarra backed. I also backed Altar Quest with all in. I do want it but eh, I think I'll try to find a buyer.
I know I'm backing Frosthaven for sure which I assume will be just as massive as Gloomhaven. I had backed Etherfields and also refunded it. I lost some money with the two refunds but lesson learned.
It was hinted on FFG's last stream that the new box would have more villains than heroes. Current guess is 2-3 heroes and 4-5 villains.
It's only a matter of time before my shelves are just tabletop versions of my favorite videogames and movies. I don't like that idea, but if they're making good games based on things I already like, it'll be hard to resist.
I'll hold out the greatest hope for a Dark Cloud board game
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I think that's a great strategy. Let people buy their favourite heroes in solo packs, then have villains together.
Means you don't have to buy a full expansion just because your one favourite supe is in there
My group's host has family in extremely high risk categories, so no gaming group for the forseeable future.
I'm gonna really need to learn table top sim now, might be the only way I get game time in outside of when I visit my family.
Same here. Especially now with all this coronavirus stuff going and not to mention Middara and Oath being available to demo...
Here is my family's game choices to play over the next month of self containment. We took them off the shelf and put them within arm's reach on the gaming table.
Just bought Marvel Champions on a whim. What's the consensus here on that game? I loved the Marvel brand and I enjoy LCGs, so I figured I'd take the plunge. It seems like I'm not too far behind with the hero packs and scenario packs. I bought Thor and pre-ordered Widow, Hulk, and Strange. How are the scenario packs? I think I'll definitely get Green Goblin when it comes back in stock, but how about the Wrecking Crew?
This will depend a lot on your gaming groups lcg experience and play habits. There's a lot of customization between the heroes and aspects and villains and modular set you use but it's finite. Your group may not be looking to trash the same few villains multiple times. The biggest knock is,coming from Arkham, the game is easy. You can house rule up the difficulty but base game is just way too easy. You'll basically never play normal outside of a few learning games.
Wrecking crew is very easy but plays a good deal different than the other sets. The problem is it's not customizable without house ruling stuff. Goblin is the better pack giving 2 villains and a bunch of modular sets. Mutagen is considered one of the harder scenarios.
Highly recommend Ms marvel to make protection playable (it's garbage without her set) and Capt is incredibly solid/broken and makes leadership bonkers good.
I do plan to get Cap and Ms Marvel once they're back in stock. How does the game play as a solo LCG? I actually plan to do a fair amount of solo play. Is it true that there is no campaign like Arkham? You can just mix villains with scenarios for one-off stories? That part actually sounds pretty appealing to me. My game group also has so many things to play that I think they'd much prefer one-off stuff.
I like it solo. You can go true solo or two handed. I play a lot more on TTS because it's much faster to setup and breakdown.
No campaign so nothing carries over. Endings are pretty anticlimactic for that reason but the journey there is fun. The main villain comes prepacked with his own scenario so more limited than that. You can add modular sets which are 5 to 9ish cards that are minor villains but rhino is always the villain for the 'breakin' scheme.
Here is my family's game choices to play over the next month of self containment. We took them off the shelf and put them within arm's reach on the gaming table.
Nice picks!
Thanks! I'm sure I'll enjoy it. I was debating between this and that Marvel game that just finished on Kickstarter with all of the minis, but that game looks a bit too simplistic for my tastes. Painting those minis would have been nice, but Champions seems to be more up my alley.
Amazon told me Wingspan would be arriving today so I was ready to try out the solo variant tonight. This morning the delivery changed to Friday. Thanks, Corona.
In the meantime I decided to play Eldritch Horror for the first time in years and I'm getting wrecked.
Also created a public game of Sekigahara on yucata so I could get a practice game since it's been on my shelf since I bought it. Really cool game, I'm terrible but just looking at it makes me want to play more and get better.
In the meantime I decided to play Eldritch Horror for the first time in years and I'm getting wrecked.
Also created a public game of Sekigahara on yucata so I could get a practice game since it's been on my shelf since I bought it. Really cool game, I'm terrible but just looking at it makes me want to play more and get better.
Nope- Just got back from Airecon and it was BAU. It was 4 days of solid gaming which was a riot. :)
Played Burgle Bros for the second time in 3 months. It took us half the game for me to realize I'd been doing the security guard's movement wrong and we'd been playing on "no wonder this is crazy hard" hard mode the whole time.
But it's a grand game and I look forward to developing my own scenarios for it, too.
But it's a grand game and I look forward to developing my own scenarios for it, too.
Nice! My core box just arrived this morning. Going to check it out this afternoon.
Wow. That's crazy to me. Here in Canada, I wouldn't even think about going to a gaming convention now... even if they were still operating. Things must be different in the UK.
We made sure we were careful as possible by using tables away from the crowds and only nipping back and forth for food/toilets. We kept ourselves as isolated a possible just incase. UK Games Expo is still on for May at the moment but I feel that's going to be cancelled at this rate. We've got an Airbnb that we were going to use to game but we are playing it by ear at the moment. The UK approach to matters at the moment is simply to pretend it isn't on going at the moment. Hell I'm in work and the only difference between a normal working day is people are washing their hands for a little bit longer.
That's nuts. Stay safe. I don't feel like I am not educated enough on the whole matter to know if Canada is overreacting or what, but almost everyone's work I know has been impacted in some way. Every conference/concert/event I know of has been canceled here.
Oh good! Enjoy, it's been so much fun. I would look up rules on "committing cards" vs playing them, it's a major rule that I screwed up for the first round of the campaign.
Oh, absolutely. It sucks to not start a game we've been looking forward to but that's incredibly unimportant right now. Also, three of us are in our late 30's but two of them are 56 and 52 so I'd rather them take these precautions.
Yeah I've got gigs next month which are cancelled and I'm not playing games with friends tonight just incase. Though if people in work end up getting sick well that is on my employer not me- I can't not go to work and they are treating it as BAU even though our fucking CEO has contracted it.
And I'd suggest on The Gathering to read Act 2 very carefully, lots of people either advance that act at an incorrect time or do the actions that lead into Act 3 incorrectly.
For that matter there's a few places where I'd seen tips about commonly misplayed rules, might be worth looking for one; when I get home I'll try to remember to link one.
Edit: Another good'un is when and how the Agenda advances: You total *all* Doom in play, not just that on the card (So if an enemy has Doom on it and is defeated, that Doom is removed from the game and you get a break) - and, unless you get a card effect that explicitly states otherwise, just applying Doom will not in itself advance the Agenda, that will only happen at the correct moment in the Mythos phase. And when it *does* advance, all Doom in play anywhere is removed.
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